Hugging Face says it used an open model to defend against an autonomous agent cyberattack
max_paperclips · x · 2026-07-29
Hugging Face’s Clement Delangue says the company is publishing a full technical timeline and interactive replay of what it calls the first autonomous agent cyberattack.
He says the team used an open model to help defend itself, and that the goal of sharing the incident is to help defenders understand the attack pattern and prepare for similar threats.
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